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clarity

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 14

Sound

My linux's sound doesn't work. I searched the wiki, but only came up with open-source sound drivers. I don't think that was it. When using Fedora, I had to use ALSA or something to get my sound to work. Help is greatly appreciated.

clarity

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 14

Re: Sound

Bump.

New development. I found the alsamixer command. I installed all the alsa tools:

alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer

and ran alsamixer. It gave this error message:

alsamixer: function_snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device.
I tried commenting the OSS lines, and uncommenting it. None worked.

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: Sound

clarity this is what you need to do:
1. pacman -Sy alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer hwd
2. edit /etc/rc.conf and add "hwd" right before "network" and then add "alsa" wherever you like.
3. Now, if you do not want to re-start the system (has an eerie windows feel  :? ) you (as root) issue

 su -c '/etc/rc.d/hwd start' 

so your sound card can be detected.
4. As root, issue "alsamixer" and adjust the volume to your liking and then press "esc" to exit the mixer and issue "alsactl store" and save your settings.
5. Enjoy!

Hope this helps

Rick

clarity

Member

Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 14

Re: Sound

clarity this is what you need to do:
1. pacman -Sy alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer hwd
2. edit /etc/rc.conf and add "hwd" right before "network" and then add "alsa" wherever you like.
3. Now, if you do not want to re-start the system (has an eerie windows feel  :? ) you (as root) issue

 su -c '/etc/rc.d/hwd start' 

so your sound card can be detected.
4. As root, issue "alsamixer" and adjust the volume to your liking and then press "esc" to exit the mixer and issue "alsactl store" and save your settings.
5. Enjoy!

Hope this helps

Rick

It works! I don't know if sound is being played, as my iPod is not being found.